Posts made by scotth

@scotth My workstation at work is kvm with fedora under it. I use windows 10 and opensuse vm's under it through virtual machine manager. It works very smooth and never had a bit of trouble.

I never tried OpenSuse. After I get this going, I'm going to setup Hyper-V on my brother's server. I may give it a go. He's running Kodi on Windows which works fine. I want to setup a Kodi only box and feed it out. I'm doing this at home on XCP-ng and it works great. I use the Emby addon and it streams beautiful to anything in the house no matter the original resolution.

I get that. I've tried CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian and Mandrake. Thought I'd try the latest IT darling. I'm nowhere near good with Linux. I need to practice with something that I can get a lot of examples of, like those here.

@jmoore They claim that you can tag an author or series and it will scrape the net and add books to your wish list. It should make it easy to manage a purchase list or borrow list from the library.@dafyre I've been using the EPUBReader extension in Chrome. Does pretty good although it doesn't auto-bookmark where you're at in the book. You have to bookmark your spot when you close the browser. I just got used to hitting 'D' while I'm reading.

I have an ebook Library in Calibre and have seen posts about Lazy Librarian working in conjuction with Calibre and GoodReads that will follow Authors / Series and form wishlists. Sounds like it might be nice.

Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.

If they exist

The seminar, I think, seems to be trying to sell a non-open product on top of open source. From what I can tell, there is no open source in the "VDI solution" portion. If there is, they totally hide it. Go look at the web site, there is no way to get the source whatsoever and zero mention of a license.

Terminal services is different from VDI and you can do that today for free with open source. And you can do VDI with open source - just install any desktop VM on KVM or Xen and ta da... full stack open source VDI. That's literally all it takes.

If you mean RDP or VNC or SSH or Telnet, then yes, I have that. More, I don't know what I'm doing but I am willing to learn.

If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.

Im' interested but the ad said it was all open source, but the vendor in question seems to have no info about their source or licensing anywhere.

Open source is what piqued my interest

Yeah, could be really cool. But they don't make it seem like it is open source when you go to the site at all.

If I remember correctly, our Citrix / Terminial Services solution cost around $25k with hardware, software & setup and we could only handle about 30-35 connections before we tapped out. And that was in the early 2000's.
Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.